Excellent, thank you. Regarding Wikipedia: I am a software professional working in energy for the last decade, and Wikipedia's English language pages on modern energy systems (not an obscure topic!) are dominated by semi-informed ideologues who keep them inaccurate and quite dated. Pigs, mud, they like it, etc.
Re: "To me there are mostly two speeds, ‘don’t care how I want it now,’ and ‘we have all the time in the world.’ Once you’re coming back later, 5 minutes and an hour are remarkably similar lengths.", to me this is only true if you're doing one-shot, get the result, take it or leave it, which is not at all how I use LLMs most of the time. I do a lot of refining: "this is good but change this and this and focus more on this", and often I am only satisfied with a result after 10+ prompts. At that point, the difference between 5 minutes and an hour becomes very prominent!
Statement: I believe the lack of visible safety testing for a highly intelligent internet browsing agent (DR) is abnormally concerning, even as a reader that typically disagrees with your conclusions on safety.
I think the rushed nature of DR's release should receive more coverage.
Excellent, thank you. Regarding Wikipedia: I am a software professional working in energy for the last decade, and Wikipedia's English language pages on modern energy systems (not an obscure topic!) are dominated by semi-informed ideologues who keep them inaccurate and quite dated. Pigs, mud, they like it, etc.
Ironically also true in topographic field research from mountaineering, which is a polar opposite type of domain.
"They came for the topographers, and I did not speak out, because I was not a topographer ..."
Podcast episode for this post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/were-in-deep-research
Re: "To me there are mostly two speeds, ‘don’t care how I want it now,’ and ‘we have all the time in the world.’ Once you’re coming back later, 5 minutes and an hour are remarkably similar lengths.", to me this is only true if you're doing one-shot, get the result, take it or leave it, which is not at all how I use LLMs most of the time. I do a lot of refining: "this is good but change this and this and focus more on this", and often I am only satisfied with a result after 10+ prompts. At that point, the difference between 5 minutes and an hour becomes very prominent!
> Wikipedia curates the information that is notable, gets rid of the slop.
Not a good thing at all, given their standards for 'slop'. https://gwern.net/inclusionism
Statement: I believe the lack of visible safety testing for a highly intelligent internet browsing agent (DR) is abnormally concerning, even as a reader that typically disagrees with your conclusions on safety.
I think the rushed nature of DR's release should receive more coverage.